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Message-Id: <1182283260l.4416l.0l@oscar.alarsen.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:00 +0200
From: Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>
Cc: david@...g.hm, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
debian developer <debiandev@...il.com>,
Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
On 2007-06-19 20:23:00, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> If you take the Wikipedia definition of Tivoization, you'll see it's
> about copyleft software only, and no law mandates the use of copyleft
> software. There's no end to bad laws, but a law that mandated the use
> of copyleft (=> free) software and at the same time prohibited
> modifications by the user would be a very contradictory one.
You're absolutely right...
Nobody forces us to use Linux in the credit-card terminals I'm currently
working on; of course we could have selected a proprietary solution (and
we would be forced to, were the Linux kernel and/or certain crucial
libraries or utilities GPLv3 only).
Only, your statement above seems to run counter to your previous claims
that the "anti-tivoisation" provisions of GPLv3 would bring _more_
developers to copyleft software.
So which one is it?
Cheers
Anders
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